Latest poll shows Lieberman holds lead

[oberliner]

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman continues to hold a 12 point lead over his Democratic challenger.

A Quinnipiac University poll released this morning shows Lieberman holds a 50 to 38 percent likely voter lead over Democratic candidate Ned Lamont, with eight percent for Republican
Alan Schlesinger. Five percent are undecided.

http://www.abc6.com/engine.pl?station=wlne&id=22719&template=breakout_story_local_news.shtml&dateformat=%25M+%25e,%25Y

[NOLADEM]

1. What is wrong with the people of Connecticut?

[bluestateguy]

2. Lamont just never won back the Democrats who voted for Lieberman in August

and Lamont winning was predicated on the assumption that the Republican nominee would actually win most Republican votes.

[madfloridian]

6. Much more than that. Look at the Dems behind Lieberman....

If Lieberman did not go back to congress for this bunch, it would make other more corporate Dems too vulnerable...so they can't let Lieberman lose to an upstart.

It has nothing to do with winning back anyone. It has to do with the people from the Clinton administration supporting Lieberman fully and completely, and the former president refusing to appear with Lamont.

That is what it is about. Read the names on the list. It is about change they don't want to happen.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/562

[geek tragedy]

3. This one was over when the Republicans decided to throw

their support behind Lieberman instead of their own guy. Just wasn't feasible to cobble together a coalition of people big enough to overcome the Lieberman/Republican marriage.

Lamont could have made this closer, but the dynamics were stacked in Joementum's favor.

[PATRICK]

4. Weird

The man democrats don't want and the "liberal" voting democrat Republicans have to support over their own candidate means in effect Joe is truly accepted by practically no one, represents no party. What a hangover for everyone after this election, including Joe's if there is any room up there. So loyalty to Cheney's agenda and strategy has created this mess and there is no state politics this year. It is suspended so their Dem loyalist can be the lesser of two evils for the WH. Talk about rubbing people's face in it.

If only the electorate could step back and take a long hard look at what doing Cheney's bidding has left them. A virtual non-representation given somehow a majority "win".

[neoblues]

5. It would've been nice...

It would have been nice to be rid of that one (lie-berman); a kind of relief... something like finally reaching the showers after having been dunked in a cesspool or sewer. At least that's how I feel about the guy. Alas, it looks like we'll have to do without a shower--maybe we can get a towelbath (that'd be equivalent to gaining a majority, even a small one, over the rest of the denizens of the sewers (Republicans)).

Who knows, in the end, Lieberman might still support the Democratic platform more often than he does the Republicans--and though he'll probably continue to damage the image of the Democratic Party, it will be lessened since some** citizens know we've rejected him.

** remembering that millions of Americans (including those over the age of 18) couldn't tell you the name of the vice-president (the shadow president who runs the visible one, but that's a whole nother issue).